August Fun...

For our closing activity with the young adults we work with, we had a lively luau up in Waterton National Park, outside the chapel there. We served over 75 kids and we had a lot of good food and fun!

Two pigs were roasted for 6 hours in these special roasters, right on site.

Off to the Cardston Heritage Days Parade. Don and I are sitting in the back of Delbert Beazer's truck right on Main Street. I am holding Brooklyn's baby, Macy. It was a beautiful day for a celebration. The parade lasted over an hour and had lots of great floats and entries.

Our very own Cardston Elementary School choir...who won Nationals this summer! Way to go!
Ok, so the hail damaged all my flowers...except these are a daisy-like weed and they are flourishing! Hmmm...

Tell me...Why do I live here!!

Today, a storm rolled in around 4 o'clock. It had been sunny, but suddenly turned dark and windy. It began to hail slightly, so Don and I headed out to the front deck to watch. The hail started tiny, but soon turned to marble size and it came down HARD. It lasted for about 40 minutes! I sat there with my head in my hands. I just couldn't believe it.

Everything was covered in white balls. The scent of pine was strong as the evergreen trees got hammered. The air was so cold.

Two of the glass panels were slightly cracked.

I went into the laundry room and heard some strange sounds I couldn't identify. Finally I realized that the hail in the eaves troughing was slowly melting and sliding down the down-spouting. It was all piled up at the bottom.

A very broad leafed plant that got shredded.
My zuchini plants that were just starting to bloom.

My beautiful rock garden took a hard hit. I wanted to cry.

My front rock garden.

Don drove up to Beazer to see how the hay crop was up there. When he returned, he said the hail was local to our home. There was only a slight bit of hail nearby our home, but none in the surrounding area. Definitely not at Beazer which is a huge blessing as we have a lot of hay up there, waiting to be cut.
I did enjoy my flowers for 3 weeks, but we will see if they can recuperate from this disaster. It's times like this when I do wonder why I love here!